Package tie



PACKAGE TIE May 13 19241.v 1,493,966

Filed may v, 1919 Patented May 1e,` 1924.

UNITED STATES EULALIA CUTBIRTH,

0F BIG LAKE, TEXAS.

PACKAGE TIE.

Application lcd May 7,

T 0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EULALIA CUTEIRTH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Big Lake, in the county of Reagan and State of Texas, have invented `certain new and useful Improvements in a Package Tie, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to package ties, and an object of the invention is to provide a package tie which may be used a number of times, and which is constructed so as to facilitate its tying about a package, or its removal therefrom.

More specifically, the invention comprehends the provision of a package tie com prising a relatively long cord having a loop formed at one end thereof, upon which cord is slidably mounted a cylindrical sleeve,

tapering at its end which is adapted for insertion through the knot in the cord, when tied about a package, to facilitate the untying of the knot and the resulting removal of the package tie from the package.

Other obj ects of the invention will appear in the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying draw ing, forming a part of this specification, and in which drawing:

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the package tie.

Figure 2 is a view illustrating the package tie in the first step of positioning it about a package.

Figure 3 illustrates a second or subsequent step in the placing of the tie about a package.

Figures l1, 5 and 6 illustrate the second step in the tying of the package tie about a package.

Figure 6 showing the completed knot.

Referring more particularly to the draw. ing, 10 indicates `the cord which forms the main portion of the package tie, this cord is looped and tied at one end to provide the loop 11, after it has a sleeve 12 slidably mounted thereon, which sleeve gradually tapers toward each end, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The end of thecord b remote from the end upon which the loop 11 is formed is knotted, as shown at 13, to pre- 1919. Serial No. 295,484.

vent the sleeve 12 from passing olf the end of the oord.

In placing the improved package tie about a package, it is first passed about the package in one direction, preferably longitudinally thereof, with the loop 11, at the center of one side of the package, after which the` knotted end 13 of the cord is passed through the loop and about the package indicated at A, transversely to the direction in which it was originally passed about the package, thus forming a tie over all four ofthe edges of the package to securley confine the contents thereof. v

After the cord has been passed entirely about the package, the free end which carries the knot 13 is inserted through the loop 11, and passed under the portion of the cord which leads up to the said loop 11, to provide a second loop and it is then swung over the said portion which is indicated by the numeral 14 inthe drawing, to provide a third loop and passed through the third loop as clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing. After the end of the cord 10 has been passed through the second loop, as shown in Figqfi of the drawing, it is returned through the third loop formed by the portion of the cord which is passed under the length or portion 111 thereof and the portion of the cord which'is inserted through the second loop formed at the loop 11 as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawing. i

The knot, formed by the two loops which are in turn formed bythe passing of the free end of the cord 10 under and over the por tion 14. thereof is drawn tight with the `sleeve 12 in the knot, or if it is so desired,

departing from the spirit of this invention,

one end provided with a loop for receiving adapted to be secured in a knot formed when a portion of the oord when the cord is the cord is secured about a package, and placed about a package and tied, and a said sleeve being tapered towards its ends 10 threading sleeve having a longitudinally eX- to facilitate passage of the sleeve through 5 tending bore to receive the cord, said sleeve a knot formed in securing the cord about being slidably mounted `upon the 4opposite a package.l y l v endy portion of thev 60rd from the loop and EULALIA CUTBIRTH. 

